Hello, everybody!
So, a brief content warning before I get started: I talk about burnout and stress a lot in this talk, because I’ve spent most of the last couple years working on getting better about both of those things. Right now, things are actually going really well both for me and my team. We’re OK! If you’ve been dealing with these issues yourself, my hope is that you’ll be able to relate without getting bummed out, but if you want to take a pass on hearing about other people’s stress because it triggers your own, I won’t be offended.
That said, hi! I’m Forrest Lehwalder Norvell, and I’m the team lead for the npm command-line interface. If you don’t know what that is, the short version that one of the Bens here came up with yesterday is that npm is a cupboard on the internet where developers cram all the crap that they or somebody else might want to use again someday. The important thing is that it’s a very popular open-source product, and it has a large and enthusiastic community. I have now finishe